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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: -----put together a report which was presented to Mr. Blair. The former Prime Minister, Mr. Blair, told us afterwards that this played a pivotal part in his change in attitude. I suggested to the Taoiseach in my letter that he ask civil servants to use the expertise available to the Government to draw up comprehensive reports on all accessible information on the Ballymurphy massacre, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I appreciate that. Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. I very much welcome his assertion that the Government will continue to improve co-operation across the island on a range of issues. Like the Taoiseach, I join in commending the customs service and the Garda Síochána on the arrests and confiscation of equipment in diesel laundering plants. It always strikes me, including with regard to what...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: On a brief point of information.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: My information is that Marian Price's health has not improved.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I have read the doctors' reports.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I thank the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Ba mhaith liom cur leis an méid a dúirt an Taoiseach agus an Teachta Martin faoin scéal brónach seo i dtaobh báis P.J. Morley. I wish to extend sympathy to the Morley family. Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Ceist faoi reachtaíocht atá fógraithe. I wish the Minister of State, Teachta Alex White, well in his new position.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I wish him luck. He will need all the luck he can get, given the way Deputy Shortall was dealt with. The new Minister of State has a hard job to do and I wish him luck with it. Last week, Deputy MacDonald asked the Taoiseach whether statutory power for primary care had been delegated to the former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, and he replied that he thought that it had not been.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: I think it is but I will be bound by the Chair's instruction. Will the Taoiseach confirm whether statutory power for primary care has been delegated to the new Minister of State, Deputy White, or whether the Government plans to bring forward such a statutory instrument? Has the programme for Government been changed, given Deputy Shortall's assertion that it is not being implemented? Does...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Support Services (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to tackle the rise in underemployment as reported in the latest house quarterly survey. [41595/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Labour Market Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he intends to take to tackle the increasing casualisation of the labour market. [41596/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41297/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide clarification on the requirements which must be met in order to qualify for qualified child dependent, with specific regard to whether or not the applicant must be in receipt of child benefit payment to qualify; if so, the steps that must be undertaken by an applicant to transfer payment of same from one parent to another; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Divisions Report (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he expects the review of local election boundaries to commence; when he expects the review to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41878/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Gaisce Awards (2 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is possible for youth groups in Belfast to register directly with the Presidents award Gaisce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41493/12]

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Will the Minister explain precisely what Labour's role is in this Government?

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Will he measure his party's record thus far against its election promise that it would stop the worst extremes of Fine Gael? The Labour leadership's silence on the Minister for Health's explanation for siting the two primary health centres in his constituency and its sacrifice of one of its own Ministers of State are in marked contrast to its attitude in opposition.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Gerry Adams: Then, Labour railed against cronyism, golden circles and the failed social and economic policies of Fianna Fáil. Anois, tá siad ag baint úsáid as polasaithe atá díreach cosúil leis na polasaithe a bhí ag Fianna Fáil. Tá siad á n-úsáid acu sa tslí salach céanna. This morning we have the revelations - I make no...